Joel Robert Ferguson grew up in a family of working-class evangelical Baptists in the Maritimes and found an escape from that parochial world in literature. In his twenties, that escape became literal, as he hitchhiked across the...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Ferguson, Joel RobertSummary: - Author:Greenwood, CatherineSummary:
Nominated for the 2014 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Book Prizes); finalist for the 2014 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
Atmospherically light and stylistically expansive – poems that regard our givens as a gift.
Don...
- Author:Reid, MontySummary:
Shortlisted for the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award (for the best book of poetry in the National Capital Region)
A book of lyrics, fragmented, extended, and recovered, which read as a single long poem.
The Luskville...
- Author:Acquelin, José, D'Alfonso, AntonioSummary:
This selection of poems offers the reader a good introduction to a poet of oxymorons, the poet who brings light out of the darkness. Born and living in Montreal, José Acquelin is known to be a poet open wide to the world. He is the...
- Author:Hunt, KenSummary:
The hands of humans split the atom and reshaped the world. Gradually revealing a sublime nightmare that begins with spontaneous nuclear fission in the protozoic and ends with the omnicide of the human race, The Manhattan Project traces...
- Author:Thibaudeau, ColleenSummary:
Readers of Colleen Thibaudeau's selected poems, My Granddaughters Are Combing Out Their Long Hair, will feel at home in The Martha Landscapes, where domestic dearness and the exotic, like strangers, "make their first...
- Author:Boxer, AsaSummary:
An old idea of reality animates the poems in The Mechanical Bird: things are never what they seem. Opening with a quick-talking disquisition on lying (Keep it simple, tidy, / take a noncommittal stance) and ending with masterly...
- Author:Janess, DanielleSummary:
"A vibrating journey across time and the borders of memory and space to voice what was unvoiced, to restore the pieces of a broken world." Tomasz Rózycki, author of Colonies.
- Author:Cooley, DennisSummary:
The Muse Sings and the poet sings songs of love and longing from states of joy, self-doubt, vexation, curiosity, affection, observation, mock-indignation… The poems speak for themselves and sometimes “they talk all at once.” In...
- Author:Hoefle, HaroldSummary:
A whistling through teeth. / He shuts his eyes but still sees / the red glow of exit signs. Harold Hoefle's The Night Chorus rises out of forests and country roads, bars and buses, cities and small towns. These locales are the...
- Author:Giovannone, AaronSummary:
Compulsively confessional and cracking-wise, The Nonnets is an utterly unique alchemy of poetry and comedy. Aaron Giovanonne's latest collection is a book-length sequence of 'nonnets'-nine-line poems that Giovannone...
- Author:De Meijer, SadiqaSummary:
The Outer Wards, Sadiqa de Meijer's new collection, explores questions of maternal love and duty--and the powerlessness that comes with the disruption of that role through illness. "I was awake. / The hour was wrong," de...
- Author:Greenwood, CatherineSummary:
Notable Book in the 2005 Kiriyama Prize and longlisted for the 2005 ReLit Awards
Catherine Greenwood draws on the stories and legends which surround the development of cultured pearls by Mikimoto, the fabulous Pearl King, to...
- Author:Dumont, MarilynSummary:
A picture of the Riel Resistance from one of Canada’s preeminent Métis poets
With a title derived from John A. Macdonald’s moniker for the Métis, The Pemmican Eaters explores Marilyn Dumont’s sense of...
- Author:Dumont, MarilynSummary:
With a title derived from John A. Macdonald's moniker for the Métis, The Pemmican Eaters explores Marilyn Dumont's sense of history as the dynamic present. Combining free verse and metered poems, her latest collection aims to...
- Author:Humphreys, HelenSummary:
In her third book of poetry The Perils of Geography, Helen Humphreys charts a world that opens under the prodding and promise of language. With the wit and eye for evocative detail which gained readers for both Gods and...
- Author:Ball, JonathanSummary:
Winner of the 2013 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry (Manitoba Book Awards) If David Lynch crashed into Franz Kafka in a dark alley, the result might look like The Politics of Knives. Moving from shattered surrealism to...
- Author:Barwin, GarySummary:
Poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginative flight and quiet beauty that have made him unique among contemporary poets. As the Utne Reader has noted, what makes this work so...
- Author:Junaid, BushraSummary:
'What truths would you utter from your mouthIf you could tell us your story'- The Possible Lives of W.H., SailorIn this powerful and deeply moving poetic narrative, author/artist Bushra Junaid gives presence to W.H., a...
- Author:Brockwell, StephenSummary:
From the moment we learn to speak we are always using other people’s words. the real made up improvises on this simple idea of imitation; mimicry becomes a kind of cadence for an interweaving of transcribed speech, ironic song...
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